{"id":11827,"date":"2016-08-25T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"call-of-the-coffeemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/call-of-the-coffeemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Coffeemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/0421h-Coffee_A-day-without.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11828\" src=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/0421h-Coffee_A-day-without-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"coffee\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Five high-pitched beeps, each just short of a second long, sounding in regular succession. This is preceded by a gurgling sound that I don&#8217;t always hear. That depends on where I am. The beeps, however, are just piercing enough that I will hear them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Five electronic beeps that sing a melody-less song of hope. Signaling that the rich Colombian elixir is ready. That elixir which chases away the 4 am cobwebs and stirs the blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Five electronic beeps, \u201cI am ready for you, master. Come, partake of me. Fill your cup and drink me in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">A five note siren song, drawing me to the kitchen, a mug, steamy warmth nestled in my hands as I trod the dark hallway to the den, my desk, my work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Oh, the song of the morning. Long before sunrise. Invigoration that prepares me for creation, for study, for contemplation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">I hum a song of gladness, of gratefulness, to The Maker, for the maker of coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Let the day begin.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five high-pitched beeps, each just short of a second long, sounding in regular succession. This is preceded by a gurgling sound that I don&rsquo;t always hear. That depends on where I am. The beeps, however, are just piercing enough that I will hear them. Five electronic beeps that sing a melody-less song of hope. Signaling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/call-of-the-coffeemaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call of the Coffeemaker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[26,6],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","tag-life-2","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20408,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/20408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}